Condemning the action, he said he was ready to offer legal support to those affected.

“I will implore all those affected by this uncommon act of wickedness to challenge it in court.

“We will be more than ready to support this just cause until the final victory is won,” Akeredolu said in a statement at the weekend. He described as “callous and irresponsible” the alleged sack of some lecturers and staff of the institution.

They were said to have been relieved of their duties by the intitution’s Governing Council acting on the orders of the Ondo State Government.

Akeredolu, who was Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate in the last election, said the dismissal was condemnable.

The statement added: “This latest assault on the law abiding citizens working in that patently neglected institution, under the guise of some dubious ‘reorganisation’, one in the series of such mindless tendencies to deprive the people of the state of their legitimate means of livelihood by the clueless pseudo-labour adventurers, must be condemned by all those who are decent and Godly.

“Some members of staff of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, have already been subjected to this harrowing experience.

“The hapless victims of a vindictive band are being punished, ostensibly, for their principled stance against bad governance and the practical steps taken to extricate themselves from the shackles of oppressive and rudderless government.

“It smacks of hypocrisy, of the worst kind, for an administration, which fraudulently hoists the banner of labour, to relieve people of their jobs when it has decidedly elected not to create jobs for an increasing army of jobless people.

“It becomes all the more instructive that these pathetic beings deploy animalistic instincts in dealing with their fellow beings.

“We want to assure the government that this current state of things is momentary.

“Every serious government seeks to alleviate the harsh conditions experienced by its people.

“Genuine leaders depend on their ingenuity to make things work in an environment of systemic dysfunction.

“Only a clueless government will seek to compound the misery of the vastly dispossessed and serially abused people.

“This is a show of vindictive pettiness, an attitude of intolerance displayed by the haughty who wallow in deliberate amnesia concerning what happened in recent past.

“The Agagu administration did not sack any worker for supporting the opposition before the court judgment which brought this current emperor into office.

“An elected representative of the people who truly believes in their right to choose will never get away with this impunity in a decent society.”